They were loaned old-timey film projectors by Chicago Film Society, what did they watch? What did they think?
They wonder sometimes. When your whole mission is rooted in the act of threading physical celluloid through the guts of clunky antiquated projectors, when your group was founded to promote the âunsimulated experienceâ of showing film stock to a room full of strangers, you are at the mercy of knowledge. A while ago, when a guy in Iowa offered them a bunch of old 16mm projectors that he had acquired from a school district there, they bought them, not entirely knowing what they would do with them â it seemed like the right thing to do. You know, preservation-wise. See, many decade...